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Home Institution: Princeton University
Jim Pivarski
Research Physicist, Princeton UniversityMy research:
Growing the Pythonic HEP ecosystem, particularly as lead developer of Uproot and Awkward Array.
My expertise is:
Python, vertical scaling, array-oriented programming.
A problem I’m grappling with:
Involving more people in scientific Python, both as users and developers, bridging Awkward Array with everything, including ROOT and RDataFrame, generalizing its applicability beyond HEP.
I’ve got my eyes on:
Julia, portable GPU programming, Arrow, Parquet, Zarr.
I want to know more about:
What everyone else is working on/thinking about… the direction of HEP analysis software today.
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